Both groups were then shown pictures of a range of different female body shapes ranging from emaciated to obese, and asked to rate them in terms of how attractive they were.

The results showed that men in the stressed group rated their "ideal" figure as significantly larger than those in the control group.

While both groups gave broadly similar ratings to slimmer women, the stressed men were also much more likely than men in the control group to find women who were of normal weight or overweight attractive.

Dr Viren Swami and Dr Martin Tovee wrote in the PLoS ONE journal: "While there was no significant difference in the lower end of the range, the [stressed] group appear to have shifted the maximum cut-off for attractive bodies at higher BMIs (body mass indices)."

The pictures were numbered according to their BMI on a scale of one to ten, with one representing emaciated and ten obese.

The largest figure deemed attractive by stressed men was 7.17, which fell in the "overweight" category, while the upper limit of attractiveness for men from the non-stressed group was 6.25, which is classified by the scale as a "normal" weight.

Stressed men rated a figure of 4.44 as the ideal figure while the non-stressed men found women most attractive at a lower level at 3.90.

"The results provide the first experimental evidence that the experience of psychological stress shapes men's judgments of female body size," the researchers wrote.

"Men experiencing stress not only perceive a heavier female body size as maximally attractive but also more positively perceive heavier female body sizes, and have a wider range of body sizes considered physically attractive."

Ain’t that a bitch… millions of years of genetic and instinctual evolution in order to make a cruel fat joke?

Here I thought there were just guys out there who liked them a biggums and really they needed a metaphorical anchor.

But it makes sense…

Looking back, all those off handed random hook-ups myself or any of my friends had with the proverbial “regrettable fat girl” never happened when we were in good places with our lives…

It was when we were rudderless; set adrift- wild, horny, and no idea what to do with it.

And perhaps that willingness to lower the bar really does stem really is nothing more than a deep instinctual want for something big and warm to cuddle you?

It would only make sense to decide to cuddle with the hefty…. They were always the goers.

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Gay Marriage....

Is too important an issue for the Government to leave to the hands of the people... Should be a state's rights issue where the voice of the people will be heard... Isn't going to matter a hill of beans once the Chinese roll their tanks down the Pacific Coast Highway...